January 23, 2012 Posts

I tried something a bit different with today's available domain list. The following unregistered keyword .com's all have something in common. They are all registered in the .net extension, and in some cases registered in other extensions too. In fact, a decent percentage of these available .com's have a developed website on their .net counterpart.
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When I got an email from Chicago.com owner Josh Metnick with a subject line that said "Something amazing is happening!" I sat up and took notice. Josh is not a guy who is given to hyperbole. We got on the phone and he did indeed have an amazing story to tell - one that will be music to the ears of owners of top tier .com domains.

The DOMAINfest Global 2012 conference will be running next week in Santa Monica, California. Over the past couple of weeks I've posted about some of the business highlights on the agenda, but one of the biggest changes will involve the evening social events. After a 3 year run, the Playboy Mansion is out & 3 new venues are in.

As Francois from Domaining.com reports, his blogger newsletter special to celebrate the beginning of 2012 sold 9 domain names to 5 buyers. A 6th buyer did not follow through on his payment for the 10th name. The sales were: GoldBangles.com … $7,000 Winy.com … $3,900 PartyAccessories.com … $3,000 MarketingService.com … $3,000...

Take this five minute survey. There's been a bit of news in the domain name forum world recently, with NamePros selling to the owner of Bodis.com. Will that shake up the "ranking" of domain forums? You tell me… You have the opportunity to vote for the best domain name forum on the 7th annual Domain

Domains transferred to Thain's latest employer. There are a lot of people out there who don't care for John Thain, current chairman and CEO of CIT. He was, after all, at the helm of Merrill Lynch during the banking meltdown…and apparently spent $1 million renovating a couple offices while on the government dole. When his

UDRP panel hands over Mailboxes.org domain name. MBE Spain 2000, S.L., which manages franchises of Mail Boxes Etc. in Spain, has been awarded the domain name Mailboxes.org by a World Intellectual Property Organization panel. The domain name was owned by a franchisee of MBE Spain. After the case was filed the franchisee forwarded the domain

Cancels two approvals, more to come? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is finally catching on to a game I've reported about many times: trying to sneak through a trademark on a top level domain name. The USPTO has a policy of not issuing trademarks for top level domain names. But that hasn't stopped people

Lean Domain Search finds available domain names that include your search term. A couple years ago I wrote about domain finding tool Domain Pigeon. Creator Matt Mazur is back with a new tool to identify available domain names that include a specific keyword. Just type in a keyword and Lean Domain Search matches it with

The general public doesn't know that domains can end something other than .com. On November 22 I wrote an article about ICM Registry's TV ad campaign. The ad campaign invited viewers to visit www.buy.xxx to learn more about the new .xxx domain extension. The campaign reached a lot of eyeballs judging by the flood of

Ireland may enact a SOPA-like law without much debate. The Stop Online Piracy Act in America may be "dead" for now, but the United States isn't the only country that wants to fiddle with the internet. Net heads in Ireland are revolting against a proposal from Sean Sherlock, Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation in

As a domainer, you have several important accounts, from accounts at various registrars to PayPal accounts or email accounts and so on. Sure, it's convenient to use the same password for all of them but if you're serious about domaining… don't. Just don't.
Oh and speaking of email accounts, here's the second tip. Your whois email...

There's an article about domain names that I found interesting on NorthJersey.com, an online publication covering northern New Jersey news and people. The article is primarily about the sale of 45.com and the story behind it, which is described as "a window into the weird, arcane and occasionally profitable world of Internet domain names." The for...

I received a press release from DomainParking.com and wanted to share the information with you. The company was founded by Internet entrepreneur and domain investor, Igal Lichtman, who you can read more about on Wikipedia. DomainParking.com is offering domain investors a store front to exhibit their domain names. I believe the crux of the idea...

Francois Carrillo, owner of Domaining.com, just announced the sales total for the domain sale to benefit domain bloggers. In total, the sale grossed $20,789, with 9 domain names sold (10 domain names were actually sold but one person didn't pay). The sales consummated through this joint effort between domain bloggers and domain forums were: GoldBan...

There are a whole lot of sources to learn about investing in domain names, much more so than years past. There are individual bloggers (and people who comment on blogs), websites that discuss domain names, and various people on domain forums. There are also various tools to track what some of the bigger domain investors

All right, we admit… as a bunch of domain name developers, web hosting tech lovers, SEO number crunchers and website building internet lovers, we probably fall into this category. The question is… which one? P.S. Yes, we got bitten by … Continue reading →

In December the domain name 45.com sold for $280,000
Today the NorthJerseyNews.com told the story behind the sale including how the seller of the domain name, Glen DiGirolamo got the domain as collaterial for a $15K loan.
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According to a press release today Tucows has repurchased millions of shares of its own stock based on an Oversubscribed tender offer.
Here is the PR:
"Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX), (TSX:TC), aannounced today the preliminary results of its modified "Dutch … Continue Reading

With hundreds of new right of the dot, gTLD extensions being applied for, I though I would take a look at the most recent extension, .XXX and see what effect it was having on the traffic of XXX.com
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According to a press release today the owners of Newspapers.com has put the domain up for sale
""Internet Express Inc., the company that owns the domain name “newspapers.com” and related website has indicated it will entertain offers for the name and site, according to newspaper brokerage firm Cribb, Greene & Associates who represent the seller...

According to a Press Release tonight the domain name DistanceLearning.com is on the sales block.
It certainly is a huge category in the education field.
According to Steven Kennedy, President of SK Creations, Inc., which owns the name:
"The generic domain name DistanceLearning.com can help position any company as a market leader with the unique bra...

Michael Cyger recently interviewed me for his fantastic videoblog site domainsherpa.com. During the interview I discuss what it means to optimise domains, my thoughts on the industry and how domain owners can improve their revenue line.
I would like to thank Michael at DomainSherpa for the interview and wish him all the best in helping educate new ...

Hello everyone and welcome to my very first Domain Development Drop List of 2012! I started this segment in late 2011 and had a very positive response so I've decided to make it a regular feature on my blog. If you haven't read about what I look for in expired domains, let me give you

This time next week many of us will be at DomainFest Not much talk about the show this year. We'll see how that translates but Oversee has been less than outgoing with the promotion. I don't think they've even announced the winner to their little fantasy domaining contest. I'm going because of the people that

You may call them future trends, you could call them now trends, but in my opinion they are trends that will still offer an opportunity for investment while it's still early in their life cycle. There are plenty of ways to invest including owning domains, building out domains, or investing in companies in these areas.

We ( I say we but it was mostly Francois) released the final numbers from the past weeks' domainer newsletter sale. The numbers weren't great but $21,000 and 9 names isn't too bad for a first time. For me it was a learning process but I certainly feel that I have a stronger grasp on

by Chris Woodward Last week I had quite a few changes take place in my life in a very short period of time. I quit my job and my girlfriend and I broke up all within a matter of hours. Pretty much any routine I had went out the window in one day. I decided

With the demise of Megaupload after its alleged involvement in organized software and media piracy, one after another such online file repositories are changing their modus operandi. The most extreme action has been taken by Germany-owned Uploaded.to – which uses the Toga ccTLD as a vanity domain. Uploaded.to simply blocks all IP addresses or...

ICANN is swimming in the dough, just a few days after the first batch of applicants deposited $5,000 each as a good faith advance for their gTLD application to be processed. Seizing this opportunity, ICANN is about to roll out its own gTLD – dot .ICANNT "The new era of the Internet and the continuous

Cracked.com – the place to visit if you want to go through "Top 10″ lists, softcore prOn and fighting kitten videos – has published a list titled "The 6 Least Impressive Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich." French domainer entrepreneur, Francois Carrillo, and Domaining.com made it to #5 on that list, specifically: #5. Making Millions by...

iReport.com – the domain sold to CNN by Rick Schwartz in a transaction that netted the Domain King $750,000 has reached a major milestone today: 1,000,000 members. In a notice at iReport.CNN.com the announcement of its millionth member fails to disclose that the news network no longer uses the domain, other than as a forward

I got interested in audio advertising back around late 2007/early 2008 when a company called NetAudioAds made a brief stir in the online advertising world. They pretty much crashed and burned, and I won't get into all of that. (but a word of warning, if you visit their website: don't bother. The site is still

Single-year .co.uk domain name registrations will cost more per year than multi-year registrations, under plans outlined by .uk registry Nominet today. The registry announced back in November that it intended to loosen up its registration policies to bring them into line with other top-level domains. From May 1, a one-year .uk domain will have a
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What are the best domain names to buy for parking, how can you maximize your return on investment when buying such names, and what is an appropriate return on investment for parking? These are but three of the questions answered in this week's show with Michael Gilmour.An entrepreneur and investor, Gilmour started his domain name business by placin...